New submission from Manuel de la Pena <man...@canonical.com>: During our development we have experience the following:
If you have a user in your Windows machine with a name hat uses Japanese characters like “雄鳥お人好し” you will have the following in your system: * The Windows Shell will show the path correctly, that is: “C:\Users\雄鳥お人好し” * cmd.exe will show: “C:\Users\??????” * All the env variables will be wrong, which means they will be similar to the info shown in cmd.exe The above is a problem because the implementation of expanduser in ntpath.py uses the env variables to get expand the path which means that in this case the returned path will be wrong. I have attached a small example of how to get the user profile path (~) on Windows using SHGetFolderPathW or SHGetKnownFolderPathW to fix the issue. PS: I don't know if this issue also occurs on python 3. ---------- components: Windows files: expanduser.py messages: 145798 nosy: mandel priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.path.expanduser brakes when using unicode character in the username type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23442/expanduser.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13207> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
